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M. L. FOX. iNSECTIClDE DISTRIBUTER FOR CULTIVATORS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 21. I918.

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APPLICATION F ILED OCT. 21, 1918.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

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INSECTICIDE-DISTRIBUTEB FOR OULTIVATQRS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed October 21, 1918. 7 Serial No. 259,028.

To all who/1t it may concern Be it known that I, Mac L. Fox, a citizen of the. United States, residing at Columbiavillc, in the county of Lapeer and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Insecticide-Distrib uters for Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

lhe invention has for an object to enable the cfiicicnt application of insecticide, the active element of which is essentially a powder more or less soluble in water, and particularly to enable the ready use of insecticide comprising powders more or less difiicult to dissolve in water obviating the necessity for putting the poison in solution, while yet avoiding the objectional method of merely sii'ting the powder on to the leavesof thcplants where it may be dislodged easily, and leaving it so.

It is an important object to give an ellicicnt means for insuring the finest subdivision of the powder as itis discharged upon plants. and an additional object is to coordinate therewith a special appliance for atomizing and spraying water upon the plants immediately before or during the.

ejection of powder by the device.

It IS an nnportant aim of the invention to effect the discharge of the powder in finely comminuted form, without giving such momentum thereto or to the air by which it is 'arried as would tcnd'to cause an unnecessarily large proportion to move past the plant upon the air current created.

-- Further objects. advantages and features of invention reside in the specific construction of the parts, or. their ar 'angeinent and combination, as hereinafter set forth and shown in the drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cultivator equipped with my invention,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the applicator mechanism, in detail,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of the appliance,

Fig. 4 ir' a rear elevation thereof,

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the device,

Fig. (l is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 6(3 of Fig. 5. 1

There is illustrated a cultivator 10, which ma v be of any usual construction, and in the present instance includes a straddle frame 11. supported by the wheels 12, one of which is provided with a sprocket 13. Upon the frame 11 there is secured a base plate It,

upon which there is mounted a shaft 15 hav nism may be driven from the supporting wheel 12 of the cultivator. Upon the plate- 14: there is mounted a vertical rock shaft 15,

having a spider 16" keyed thereon, provided with diametrically opposite armsl? and an intermediate arm 18, with which connection is made from the shaft 15 by means of the connecting rod 19, connected to a suitable eccentric 20 on the shaft 15. At the extremities. of the arms 17' saddle segments '21 are provided, to adjacent ends of which .respective ends of a cord 22 are connected, these cords being laid in suitable grooves upon the outer sides of the saddles, and ex tending beyond the ends opposite those to which the cord is attached, over pulleys :23,

mounted upon the upper side of the plate 1%,

and downwardly so that the intermediate partof the cord may pass snugly over. a pulley 21L fixed upon the shaft of a rotating brush 25 mounted in a suitable manner upon the under side of the plate 14. In'the pres entinstance, the shaft of the brush is carried in the down turned ends 26 of a plate 27 having its intermediate portions secured upon the under side of the plate 14. A casing 25 is provided to partly inclose the brush, the casing being open at its lower side, in order to keep the device clean and clear of earth or mud. A longitudinal slot 28 is formed through the plates 1%, alined with the axis of the brush 25, and the plate 27 is provided with a longitudinal series of apertures 29 directly under the slot. The plate 14. is formed with a suitable channel in the under side immediately over the plate 27 in which there is mounted a sliding foraminate shutter 30. A large opening 31 is formed through the plate l h'iniinediately over the pulley 2st, and extending some dista'nce ,therebeyond, the shutter 30 having a narrow arm 32 extended outwardly into the slot 31, and thence upwardly, where it is connected with air-eccentric link at one end, the opposite end of the link'being 8111i} ablypivoted upon a wrist '34 on one of the .arms of the spider 1%.

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